Moon transits Earth (infrared)

[proconiswarman]

fake

[petetheweet]

@proconiswarman Moron

[proconiswarman]

@petetheweet it´s a weatherballon... was heisst Moron?

[Skalar300]

Fantastically!

[datzfast]

wow it looked like the moon was so small almost one twentyith the volume of earth now i know they say its one sixth gravity but sould be far less

[magicyte]

Yup...like others said...this is just a movie made from who knows what sources...i mean...look at the moon...why is it brown? I would love it if this were a real movie...cause it sure would fuck with people who think the moon is grey...

[puncheex]

@magicyte: You did read in the title where it says "infrared"? And the description? If its infrared (which we can't see), then it has to be false colored (so we can see it). I would imagine it was an animation done to give the ground station programmers something to work with before the satellite actually got into position.  Or advance PR, or something of the sort.

[puncheex]

.... Oh, yes, as pointed out below, the animation could be made up of real still pictures, not painted on cels by hand or computer generated.

[phongbong]

Fuck you H&R Block, I'm trying to learn science!

[SpacedTime]

I thought I would see the moons shadow on the earth after it passed, but I guess it just wasnt the time.

That would have been cool.

[elgunot]

that would be  a solar eclipse

[puncheex]

@SpacedTime: Unlike Jupiter's moons, which travel relatively close to the surface of Jupiter and are small, our moon is large and far away. The chances of the shadow actually alighting on the planet are small.

[anynamecounts]

you'd think that you'd see the stars...the earth isn't bright the sun is what shines down on the earth the earth has no light in itself ....& even if that were the case if you put a camera up to a street lamp you cant see the lamp itself you can only see the light so you wouldn't be able to see earth even if it did have light coming from it.& if the images were enhanced to see the earth better then you would see the stars better as well if this was even a real picture.

[peteriliev]

The distance Earth - Moon is (average) 384 000 kilometers!

[Bent41]

amievery1-

The description says "animation" but that does not mean it's done with CGI. That only means that it is made up of many pictures (real pictures) put together to make a makeshift movie.

There would be no stars visible because the Earth is so bright that the shutter speed on Epoxi's camera was too fast to capture the light of the stars.

Try taking a picture of the stars at night while pointing the camera at a streetlamp from under it. You will see no stars.

Visit the Epoxi website.

[amievery1]

I did not say it was CGI exactly. Yeah, you are right that it was made of many pictures possibly from Google and as you say, "put together to make a makeshift movie."

[didjabringadidjalong]

not from google, from photos taken by the EPOXI craft.

NASA made this animation, visit

epoxi . umd . edu / 4gallery /

[amievery1]

There would be no reason for me to visit a NASA site because I find it hard to believe some of the things they come out with. Only facts that are known by scientists around the world and not just coming from NASA but I appreciate it.

[didjabringadidjalong]

So you only take in one point of view?

I visit Hoagland's site AND NASA, just to compare them and all, you know, open-mindedness.

[amievery1]

I am an open minded person but my points of view are selective within reason because NASA are not all they seem to be.

[phongbong]

Niel Armstrong: "Falcon punch"!

[amievery1]

What is that supposed to mean?

[phongbong]

Don't ask the original guys if the moon landing was fake. They will punch you. lol

watch?v=cIiKL_8cQZk

[puncheex]

@phongbong: Buzz Aldrin.

[phongbong]

@puncheex Buzz Aldrin is a savage. FTFY

[puncheex]

@phongbong: Ain't he, though? Anyway, it was Buzz in the video, not Armstrong.

[Bent41]

tregibbs-

jayjco is correct. You may be confused because it looks like we are seeing a major part of the Moon's orbit, but in reality this is a "zoomed-in" shot from 31 million miles away, so we are only seeing a very small part of the Moon's orbit (therefore it "appears" to be going very fast).

It would be like if you were looking at the Moon with a telescope, and a meteor (in Earth's atmosphere) flew by the field of view. That meteor would appear to be zooming past the Moon very quickly.

[jayjco]

tregibbs - you're so wrong!

1) The Earth spins slightly faster than the moon orbit - that's why the moon appears to go east->west, when in-fact it orbits the same way as the Earth spins. We pass it. Although it appears to show the moon travel great distance, it's only 24 hours worth, or 1/28th of the moon's orbit.

2) Do some research on the Epoxi Spacecraft mission. You'll see where this craft is in relation to the Earth.

Why does everyone under 30 think everything must be fake?

[amievery1]

Its ok

[tregibbs]

Actually - the most obvious way to tell this is animation and not real is two ways: 1) the Earth spins MUCH faster in relation to the speed of the moon orbiting Earth and 2) there's no way a spacecraft with a camera has gone beyond the moon, looked back from that distance shown and filmed a transit.

[puncheex]

Earth spins 28 times faster (in angular velocity terms). this video apparently shows 8 or 10 hours of real time.  There have been all sorts of missions that do that or equally difficult shoots; NASA specializes in doing them. They released in the last year a picture of Earth taken from Cassini, orbiting Saturn.

[amievery1]

There is no such thing as the earth being too bright unless you refer to the sun. The video is a computer animation.

[amievery1]

That is not real. There's no stars in the background and its not possible to capture a speed time outside of the earth. Impressive effects though.

[dinmagic]

Aw man, it's just sad to see people like you thinking everything is fake all because you didn't expect it to look a certain way.

Reading your comments about the stars & stuff tells me that you know little about photography.

In this case, the pictures were enhance so that you can see the planet & moon more clearly.

[amievery1]

Of course it's not real which we all know. It's computer generated, daw. Of course I know the purpose of the video which was to "see the planet and moon more clearly." You are right in saying I don't know much about photography. I know something of it. I was making a comment based on my observation.

[puncheex]

@amievery1: ...and you know nothing about infrared photography, do you?

[Preacher60]

that is SO COOL. I saw my country go past. To think I was probably swearing about traffic when all this is going on around me. I'm so small, but my brain knows it!

[lasziloo]

the earth is so small!

[augustusfloyd]

We always think of the moon as silver/whitish yet it only reflects 7% of the sunlight it receives (like the lead -graphite- of a pencil) therefore the unattractive dark celestial body you see here. Look at some of the Apollo footage to see how dark the moon really is.

[chrislovessum1]

the earth looks ugly

[PlanetaryTV]

Interesting animation.

[WCOTF]

very cool.

[fidelisastronomia]

Muito bom.

Alguns já foram na Lua

Boa parte em pensamento.

Clarke até colocou enigma

Provocou deslumbramento,

pra quem viu Dois Mil e Um.

Nos cinemas em movimento.

[commentercritic]

Cool.

[anarchy6668pro]

Awesome. Technology never ceases to amaze me.

[agzer0]

now can we get high res pictures of the dark side of the moon, I want to see the reported alien base.

[davimill5]

agzer0, I think you mean the far side of the moon, not the dark side. The far side is the side we never see from Earth. The dark side continually rotates around the moon, once every 29.53 Earth days. At new moon, we're looking full on at the dark side.

[agzer0]

thanks, thats what I meant.  the side that we never get to see.

[royalandonyx]

It kind of reminds me of the first Star Fox game, how the planets look when you're about to enter the level.

[SnakeyEyesIsGOD]

that is bloody awsome ba, thanks

[ETeimoso12]

Riuston we ha a problem

watch?v=VEbjz_UkRzU

[suttsteve]

Neat.

[PsychoBlack]

Eh?

[hakaida0]

looks like a massive rabbit poop pellet

[regmtait]

Looks like a child posting comments to me.

[hakaida0]

Okay. Sorry. I didn't realize that people aren't allowed to compare massive bodies in space to lagomorph droplets. Your Moon is serious business.

[hakaida0]

(that was a reply to "regmtait.")

[onlyAerik]

hollow earther

But, but, but... it's just a re flection on the shell,don't you see it? It's so obvious, look at the shadows, THE SHADOWS! and no stars!

/hollow earther

[osirisra]

as one great man said once, 'impressive..most impressive'

[RebirthedKarma]

"You don't know the power of the dark side."

[acs1978au]

Sensational!

[boomya555]

Ok!! not sure why this is cool or not but hey I can say I seen it here first!!.

[SirMildredPierce]

Excellent!

[dorbie]

cool

[craigjkb]

thanks i like video

[ECAaxel]

wow

[negrosaurus]

ball's in your court, Flat Earth Society.

[craigjkb]

lol i like that ball's in your court

[SirMildredPierce]

Is the Flat Earth Society still active? I figured it mostly died out when their leader, whatshisface, passed on. I had a chance to talk to him on the phone when I lived in Nome, Alaska. I wanted to know why when I lived in Nome there was such a long delay on my phone when talking long distance. They always blamed it on satellite delay because the satellite was in geosynchronious orbit, but duh theres no such thing as satellites right?. He couldn't tell me why there was a delay.

[busydad24]

Very nice.

[DiDeDra]

very cool...

[foley15136]

That was cool! Amazing view.

[smoothvirus]

wow

[longhairred]

~sweet~

[Dutchdrummer99]

that`s the most amazing thing i have ever seen!

[UnBeguiled]

Holy Freaking Shiznet.

[adr150]

wow that is soooooooo freakin sweet

[buttface1202]

so. fucking. cool.